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I won the Mike Ivenitsky Award for Photographic Excellence 2012!! 

Please come to my reception, my work and the runners up will have work on display.

When:
Monday May 21st 4:30-6:30pm

Where:
Room 6103-photographic building
Foothill College
12345 El Monte Road  Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 

I won the Mike Ivenitsky Award for Photographic Excellence 2012!! 

Please come to my reception, my work and the runners up will have work on display.

When:
Monday May 21st 4:30-6:30pm

Where:
Room 6103-photographic building
Foothill College
12345 El Monte Road  Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 

When they say taking this medicine may cause senitivity to sunlight, what they actually mean is ALLERGIC to sunlight. So if you’re on say doxycycline and outside for more than a couple minutes you can end up with a nasty sunburn AND a rash. At first I thought I was about to have blisters, so I guess with that in mind a rash isn’t so bad.

Despite being pretty sickly lately… I’m taking an experimental photography class. I only meets once a week so I guess I can always use the other 6 days to recover.  

Plus I’m taking it pass/fail and I don’t care if I fail. In fact I’ve already taken a one day a week class I ended up failing because I was too sick to go. I guess it’s a slippery slope. At first I was trying to do my best, but in the end I just couldn’t do that much. I just have to sleep and heal when I need to.  Besides, it’s not like I’m trying for another degree! It might go down on my permanent record, but who cares! Its sort of freeing to let go and not worry about failing.

Our first assignment was to create a collage in class to introduce ourselves. Here’s mine. What can I say? My head is full of words.

I have not one but two people now using my email address for stuff. 

Raven Elliot and Erin Raven both are unable to figure out what their own emails are. 

My favorite was for h&r block taxes! Yes I do know EVERYTHING about you now!  

Runner up is the vin registration # for  a  2007 Passat Sedan.

I also know where you live, your phone numbers, social security numbers, where you’ve applied for banking accounts, jobs, and college, who your college advisor is.

Thanks! I can start leading that double life any time I want to.

I did a lot of reading this evening about pinterest and copyright.

There’s a lot of information out there about how it’s violating copyright law.  Which it is. But that’s not the point that kills it for me.  

My main objection is that the file info, which has embedded ownership info is stripped from the photo file and then uploaded onto their servers.  (hosted on amazon servers incidentally, and we all know amazon can’t even be bothered to pay sales tax..)

Meaning, the only way that image is now linked to you is by a database linking the info with the image. So when the database gets corrupted, or the server dies, or they accidentally overwrite their live database instead of the backup, then that link between you and your image is gone. I mention these specific problems because as software QA I’ve seen them all happen. Sometimes the information can be recovered, sometimes not.

So while in it’s current form where images are linked to original sources through their UI, so you can click through. I really like it.  It makes it easy to find new interesting things, and at least for right now, people are posting interesting things.

But… The problem is they aren’t taking good care of other people’s work.  

Is it ignorance, a bug they need to fix, or by design??  I’m thinking the first two.  But I guess we’ll see how it goes. I’m pretty sure they don’t have much or any quality assurance, given the number of bugs on the site. I mean seriously, did no one test that apostrophes work? That’s just weird. 

If you have images on the web. To prevent them from being sucked up onto their servers without your embeded file info you have to put this line somewhere in a page header:

<meta name=”pinterest” content=”nopin” />

Flickr has a setting in the privacy tab to turn off sharing. Which will prevent this from happening as well. (which also means facebook, tumblr, etc) 

I had a few pins up of books and artwork and I’ve removed them all. I don’t feel right about it.   

I may end up deleting my account too.  I’m still waiting to see how this plays out.

 I think that they have been careless about promoting violation of copyright. They expressly discourage self-promotion. Which means the only stuff you have copyright for, they don’t want you to post.

And they are careless about retaining the original image information.  

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I can’t figure out how to reply to comments in tumblr… which sucks!

But in response to how is pinterest different than tumblr. My whole point is that pinterest is taking the image and stripping out your embedded information, such as your name, the title of your work, and your copyright information. Tumblr does NOT do that. They do take the image and host it but it’s intact with it’s original embedded file info.

One other difference is that I don’t have button on my bookmark bar that is specifically there to snag someone ELSE’S work. Pinterest doesn’t encourage to post your own stuff. That’s mostly what I post here in tumblr.

If you’re wondering what happened to me…

I’ve been having a terribly rough time with the Lyme. Things got really bad for me before I stopped denying that it was the Lyme again. I’m back on antibiotics, and I’m having terrible a herxheimer reaction. Or rather an ongoing ebb and flow of illness.

The first month was so bad I had to lower the dosage of all my medications because the herx from all the die off made me vomit and unable to eat, or take medicine. It started on my birthday of course. I guess it’s going to be one of those years.

Upside, nasty bacteria is dying. Downside… I’m too sick to do much of anything.  I do sleep a lot. I haven’t done much online because my eyes are so fatigued it’s hard to read.  And it’s really just overwhelming to think about anyway.

I’m rather tired of feeling trapped in my house, but there’s not much I can do but look forward to getting past this. It may be a rather long time though, given how sick I currently am. 

Kitty is keeping me company. 

Hello Etsy Summit Sunday September 18th, 2011 from 10am-6pm

Members of the Bay Area Book Artists (BABA) will be at Techshop to demonstrate how to make books! Join us to make one and take it home!

San Jose Techshop

See a multigraph in action! It’s one of the lesser known presses. This ain’t your grandma’s platen press!

http://www.meetup.com/TechshopSJ/events/29786811/

Menlo Park Techshop

Learn how to make a single sheet folded book!

http://www.meetup.com/tsmenlopark/events/30596531/

This weekend July 14-17th Art MRKT Hamptons in the Modernbook Gallery Booth you can check out my work and see the four new images!

http://www.art-mrkt.com/hamptons/exhibitor-listing/639/

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Roadworks at San Francisco Center for the Book

September 24th, 2011 

http://sfcb.org/events/roadworks

I’ll be there with some fabulous little artist books and other little letterpress goodies. 

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Book Arts Jam 2011

October 15th, 2011

http://www.bookartsjam.org/

I’ll be there with some fabulous little artist books and other little letterpress goodies. And I’ll have my hot foil stamp machine there to customize pencils on the spot.

Hi all!

I’m pleased to announce that Modernbook Gallery will have my work on display in their booth at the SF Fine Art Fair at Fort Mason this upcoming weekend.
They’ve created a really nice framed set that shows off the deckle edge of the prints.

Also available for the first time is a special boxed set of The Language Of Birds with 6x8 prints with a custom made box, limited edition of 5. I just finished it a few days ago and it looks awesome!

If you would like complimentary tickets to the fair feel free to send an email to modernbook@modernbook.com

You can find Modernbook at Booth 40 
 SF Fine Art Fair is at
Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA
Friday, May 20, 12:00 - 8:00pm
Saturday, May 21, 11:00am - 7:00pm
Sunday, May 22, 11:00am - 6:00pm

I hope to see you there!